Re:generating Creativity

What happens when artists, designers and performers refuse to accept the world as it is and instead ask: what could it become?

From designing with nature and playful approaches to materials, to political works of hope and richly developed storytelling, Re:generating Creativity is a showcase for work from CSM’s recent graduates and staff and a forum for dialogue and exchange.

The exhibition unfolds thematically across 3 parts:

• Re:making draws on heritage, craft and tradition, proving that looking back can propel us forward.
• Re:grounding engages identity, community and place, revealing how personal experience can transform global understanding.
• Re:visioning embraces emerging technologies to build futures that put kinship, care and connection at their centre.

Weaving these together are investigations of themes including love, hope, culture, collaboration, materials, systems, identity and place. These themes, chosen by the featured artists and designers, reveal how the CSM community is exploring what it means to be human in a more-than-human world.

We are re:generating creativity by rethinking what an art and design college should focus on. As a part of this, we have launched Schools of Thought: C School,  C School [Culture], S School [Systems] and M School [Material]. There is a deliberate de-emphasising of disciplinary categories such as art, design and performance. The current naming strategy highlights the whole (C + S + M = CSM).

Re:generating Creativity x Black History Month

Read our interview with exhibiting artists Iman Sidonie-Samuels and Tegan Chinogurei, BA Fine Art graduates whose practices explore memory, heritage and Black British identity through material, sound and storytelling:

Re:generating Creativity x Black History Month: Standing Firm in Power and Pride.

Events

We invite you to take part in our public events featuring some of our Schools at CSM.as part of their Takeover Weeks.

Free: booking not required.